Section: US & Canada
Cold in blacked-out Crimea kills rare Bengal tiger cub
MOSCOW (AP) — A rare white Bengal tiger cub has died of cold in blacked-out Crimea.Russian state news agency RIA Novosti on Friday quoted Oleg… …read more Source:...
Lawmakers in blacked-out Crimea: Name your boys Generator
MOSCOW (AP) — Lawmakers in Russia-occupied Crimea, which is grappling with a nearly two-week-long blackout, are suggesting parents name their newborn boys Generator to mark the ordeal. …read more Source: CNS...
Lawmakers in blacked-out Crimea: Name your boys Generator
Lawmakers in the Russia-occupied Crimea which is grappling with a nearly two-week long blackout suggest parents name their newborn boys Generator to mark the ordeal. …read more Source: U.S....
Cold in blacked-out Crimea kills rare Bengal tiger cub
A rare white Bengal tiger cub has died of cold in blacked-out Crimea. … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Lawmakers in blacked-out Crimea: Name your boys Generator
MOSCOW (AP) — Lawmakers in Russia-occupied Crimea, which is grappling with a nearly two-week-long blackout, are suggesting parents name their newborn boys Generator to mark the ordeal. Unknown attackers blew up electricity pylons in Ukraine on Nov. 22, leaving the peninsula largely without power. After Russia annexed Crimea in March 2014, it...
Lawmakers in blacked-out Crimea: Name your boys Generator
MOSCOW (AP) — Lawmakers in Russia-occupied Crimea, which is grappling with a nearly two-week-long blackout, are suggesting parents name their… …read more Source:...
Thailand’s battered image dealt new blow with aviation scare
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand, once a poster child for democracy and freedom in turbulent Southeast Asia, has careened over the past two years from one image disaster to the next. First a military coup. Then revelations of slaves in the seafood industry and other human trafficking horrors. In August, a deadly bomb struck central Bangkok. And now, the...
Thailand’s battered image dealt new blow with aviation scare
First a military coup. Thai food, fun people, smiles and a fairytale monarchy, said Michael Montesano a Thailand expert at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. According to Human Rights Watch, the junta’s rule has sent “Thailand’s human rights situation into free fall.” Yet this week, government, tourism...
Britain Beefs Up Its Military As It Joins The Fight Against ISIS In Syria
WASHINGTON — Britain has traditionally been considered the U.S.’s closest friend. Now it may once again be one of its most assertive.British Prime Minister David Cameron won strong parliamentary approval on Thursday to go to war in Syria, joining a U.S.-led coalition that is targeting territory there controlled by the Islamic State...
Lviv Welcomes New US Training of Ukrainian Soldiers
As sporadic fighting continues between government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, the U.S. Army has begun training soldiers from Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense in a compound outside of the western city of Lviv. Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb reports from the city, where locals are both proud of their...
